Report: Lynch confronted, Campbell sent to 49ers locker room originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area

John Lynch reportedly had no time for linebacker De’Vondre Campbell’s sideline antics on Thursday night.

San Francisco’s president of football operations/general manager confronted Campbell on the 49ers’ sideline when he refused to play in the third quarter of the 49ers’ 12-6 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, league insider Jay Glazer reported on “FOX.” NFL Sunday.” “And it was Lynch who sent the dejected defender to the locker room.

“John Lynch actually went there in the (third) quarter and confronted him and said, ‘You don’t want to play? You refuse?’ ” said Glaser. “Yes. It was Lynch who sent him to the locker room.

“By the way, players were calling me and saying, ‘Hey, we heard you talking about this alter ego John Lynch, this 47 Red character. Man, we saw it. The guy is crazy.’ You all saw it first hand.

Campbell appeared in all 13 games for the 49ers this season before Dre Greenlaw returned from an Achilles tendon injury to play against the Rams on Thursday. When Greenlaw left the game in the third quarter with some soreness, Campbell refused to play when 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan asked him to enter.

Shanahan told reporters on Friday that San Francisco was “working through the semantics” of parting ways with Campbell following the incident, and NFL Media’s Ian Rapoport reported on Sunday that the 49ers are expected to suspend the veteran linebacker rather than release him.

Lynch and Shanahan have helped the 49ers build a culture admired by many across the NFL, one whose cornerstones are toughness and the will to win. And when the GM saw a player violating those standards, he took matters into his own hands.

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